1. Blogs & Wikis as WebQuest Tasks Bernie Dodge, PhD San Diego State University Bernie Dodge, PhD San Diego State University

2. Introduction

3. WebQuests Have Evolved

4. The Guy Who Didn’t Like Any of Them Don’t like this one Or this one Nope. They’re all bad.

5. The Joy of Technopouncing

6. Handhelds Blogs Podcasts Wikis

7. The Joy of Technopouncing Handhelds Blogs Podcasts Wikis

8. Task

9. Explain how to… 1.make WebQuests more interactive; and 2.make blogs and wikis more pedagogically useful.

10. Process

11. Steps 1.Define blogs 2.Define wikis 3.Explore design patterns that accommodate each

12. What is a Blog?  Online journal  Chronological organization  At least one link per entry  Point of view  Personal disclosure vs. Outward-oriented

13. Blogs are Popular  Pew Institute on Internet & American Life: 2.2 million bloggers in early 2003  More recent studies estimate 4-7 million  Blogs updated every 0.86 seconds  A new blog is created every 11 seconds

15. OneTrick

16. Tamara

17. Katey

18. Pepys Diary

19. The Spot

20. The Spot 2

21. The Spot 3

22. The Spot 4

23. The Spot 5

24. Blogging Software  Blogger  WordPress  Blogmeister

25. What is a Wiki?

26. Wikipedia

27. WikiSpaces

29. Wiki Software  PBWiki PBWiki  WikiSpaces WikiSpaces  Google Pages Google Pages

30. Affordances

31. Blogs vs Wikis  Usually single author  Reverse chronological structure  Usually personal  External links  Browser-based input  Usually many authors  Structure determined by the content  Usually objective  Internal & external links  Brower-based input

32. So how do we make good pedagogical use of blogs & wikis ???????????????????

33. Design Patterns

35. Travel Account

36. Historical Story

37. Caste System

38. Compilation

39. EdGames Micropedia WebQuest  Micropedia: a tightly focused reference work  Applicable from elementary to grad school  Assignment: ten entries, spread out among several categories

40. EdGames 1

41. EdGames 2

42. EdGames 3

43. Election 2004

44. Recommendation

45. Example WebQuest: India & Pakistan

46. ‘India2

47. India3

48. India4

49. India5

50. India 6

51. http://www.ahistoryteacher.com/holocaust/tiki-index.php

52. Activity

53. Evaluation

54. Rubric Quality of discussion FantasticMarvelousDeep

55. Summary  Blogs as WebQuest Tasks  Simulated Diary  Historical Story  Travel Account  Wikis as WebQuest Tasks  Compilations  Recommendations

56. Links http://webquest.org/ workshops/ wq-blog-wiki/ links.html

57. Blogs & Wikis as WebQuest Tasks Bernie Dodge, PhD San Diego State University Bernie Dodge, PhD San Diego State University